Job description

THE ROLE 📝

Join Form3’s US engineering business line and contribute to the development of our US gateway products, each built around a real-time payment scheme such as FedNow or TCH RTP. Reporting to the Lead Engineer and supported by our Staff Engineers, you will play a key role in building mission-critical systems that we believe will transform how payments are made in the US. Come and play a significant role in building critical systems that we believe will change the way the US makes payments!

On a day-to-day basis, you will contribute to feature development, system design and testing; manage and enhance our infrastructure; and support daily product operations, including participation in the on-call rotation. US gateways are built on top of Form3’s cutting-edge multi-cloud platform and are in advance stages of development, ready to onboard first customers. As a Senior Software Engineer in a gateway team, you will play a crucial role in making it happen.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍

Our ideal candidate:

Has a deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
Is familiar with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
Expresses interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
Has appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
Is experienced in programming in Go but also demonstrates a “right tool for the job” mentality
Possesses great communication skills and enjoys sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

TECH STACK ⚙️

Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
Platform: CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, Vault, NATS
Tools: Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Tilt
Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, CQRS, open-source
Ways of working: TDD/BDD, Pair Programming, 100% remote, SecDevOps

THE TEAM 👥

The USA business line consists of engineers distributed in two teams. We are spread across multiple time zones in Europe and the Americas and therefore we highly value asynchronous communication. We give engineers autonomy to choose the right solutions for the problems they face and drive technical design. We encourage collaboration, make key decisions as a group and own our solutions end-to-end. We also keep close relationships with our Product colleagues who are domain experts in US payments. Our current focus is to complete functional build and prepare for Form3’s US products’ go-lives, targeted for Autumn 2025 – we are excited to show our products to the world!

INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take-home tech test

Stage 3: Technical interview

Stage 4 (optional): Team interview

We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we’re hiring the right person!

HIRING LOCATIONS 📍

We are able to accept applications from the following countries; Canada (Ontario only)

ABOUT FORM3 💭

Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. For more information about life at Form3 check out the following pages:

What we do | Life at Form3 | Benefits | Flexa-verified employer | .tech podcast series

OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT

We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.

Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.

As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.

If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to careers@form3.tech clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.

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